Archive for 'Asia'
Kamakura, Japan
Published on September 5th, 2010.
Here is a few quick shots of Kamakura, which is about an hour away from Shinjuku station. I took these in April of 2010. I highly recommend making the trip out here if you are spending any time in Tokyo. Here is the wikipedia entry for Kamakura.
Shopping street right off the train
The stairs leading to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine
Hasedera Temple
Daibutsu at Kotokuin
A small shop in Kotokuin sells Kamakura brand Cider and it is excellent.
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Stream Japanese TV
Published on August 28th, 2010.
UPDATE: I built a streaming page for this.
I have found a better way to stream Japanese TV than Keyhole TV. As many know, the quality of Keyhole TV was horrible. Beware, during Japanese primetime it does slow down considerably because of all of you freaks watching JDramas 
Enter this list from Baidu:
WOWOW Japanese pay TV service
These will all play in Windows Media Player and the KM Player on PC. I don’t have a Mac here to test it on, so if somebody would like to leave that tip in the comments it would be greatly appreciated.
There are many more, but I haven’t had much luck with anything except the gundam.eu links.
For the full list click here.
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Karaoke Terror (2003)
Published on August 25th, 2010.
From the book by Ryu Murakami, this odd movie is about a group of middle-aged women and a group of men in their 20’s that are all karaoke enthusiasts. One of the men murders one of the women and it becomes an eye for an eye after that, growing more violent every time. Starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Kayoko Kishimoto, Masanobu Ando, Kanako Higuchi, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Yoshio Harada, Shungiku Uchida.
Japanese title: Shôwa kayô daizenshû
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